Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
The type of hosting plan will determine what kind of search they can do. Wordpress probably isn't the best platform for this, unless you can put a search layer on top of it. It's a bit clunky with handling the files - made for browsing to files, not searching. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jason Raitz wrote: > Okay, I just got some more information that makes the problem much clearer > and adds a time sensitivity. > > I was going to cut and paste, but it looks like there is a legal factor to > this that may make sending identifiable information in the clear a bad > idea. It looks like this is actually an organization that it hoping to > document the human rights abuses conducted under the former Duvalier > dynasty in Haiti with the aim (I believe) of getting him convicted. It's > goal is to set up the library interface and have Renee go to to Haiti to > train people to use and manage the library. > > Renee does have background setting up Wordpress sites and writing basic > HTML. They've purchased hosting on Godaddy and hope to use a MySQL db. > the documents are in 4 languages and all types of media formats: pdf, > audio, images and video. > > current skeleton wordpress site: http://haiti-lutte-contre-limpunite.org > > They hope to create the whole shebang in the next month! Definitely > doesn't sound like an academic library timeframe. ;-) > > Jason > > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jason Raitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint > > Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a > searchable, > > bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured > > hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or > more > > documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had > an > > interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I > > briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're > heading. > > I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school > > like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. > > > > If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with > > such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. > > > > She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't > > consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), > > she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and > > that she is able to learn what's necessary. > > > > I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this > > message. > > > > Cheers, > > Jason Raitz > > NCSU Libraries > > >
[CODE4LIB] Did anyone try the Layar augmented reality thing in Chicago?
Did any of you try out Layar and the Code4Lib 2013 augmented reality view of Chicago when you were at the conference? If so I'd love to hear what you thought, if was useful or interesting, and what might make it better. Two things I'm going to do are add a filter option so you can see only points from a map or only tweets---having both was sometimes overwhelming---and also add a filter so you can just see recent tweets. I took some screenshots and I'll post about it but if you used do let me know. Cheers, Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Mapping Engineer for Geographic Information Systems at Stanford University
Come join our fun and ever-growing team of amazing library developers at Stanford. This position will focus on front-end web mapping for GIS data. Web Mapping Engineer for Geographic Information Systems 4P3 / 4P4 Stanford University Libraries (SUL) is building an increasingly rich and complex set of geospatial information services and resources to support research, teaching and learning. The Web Mapping Engineer for Geographic Information Systems will lead the technical effort to identify, develop, and support the user-facing GIS applications for SUL's GIS programs, resources and patrons, as well as providing secondary support for SUL's spatial data infrastructure. This position will sit within and report to Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) unit within SUL, and work intimately with and directly support the programmatic activities of the Branner Earth Sciences Library, as well as closely related units within SUL and beyond. This is a fixed-term position, with a four year term. RESPONSIBILITIES The Web Mapping Engineer for Geographic Information Systems will lead the technical effort to identify, develop, and support the user-facing GIS applications for SUL's GIS programs, resources and patrons, as well as providing secondary support for SUL's spatial data infrastructure. Web Application Support (60%) • Adopt, adapt, develop and maintain software to provide a Web-based geospatial discovery and access portal, using open source technologies in an inter-institutional, community-based, development effort. • Integrate digital mapping and GIS data discovery into a GIS discovery portal and/or SearchWorks, SUL's overarching discovery layer. • Integrate (either directly or by supporting integration efforts of others on campus) additional services into SUL's GIS environment, supporting mapping and georeferencing applications, novel spatial visualization tools, mashups, and integration of gazetteers and third party GIS-based API's. Systems Analysis, Architecture Design, Implementation, and Administration (30%) • Contribute to identify SUL's information systems needs concerning geospatial data. Design and implement systems to manage, preserve, search, and make SUL's geospatial data discoverable and usable. • Contribute to implement and manage SUL's GIS infrastructure; this includes administration of specialized GIS applications including GeoServer, GeoNetwork, ArcGIS Server, and Open GeoPortal Rails (http://github.com/sul- dlss/ogp-rails) • Adopt and adapt software for the import, management and remediation of Stanford's GIS data collections • Work with SUL's server, database and network administrators to provision the necessary computing systems to support GIS services, including ESRI components in GIS labs. Community Participation, Leadership and Consulting (10%) • Play an active role in higher education and GIS researcher community; represent Stanford in this community and the development of open source and consortial service efforts. Consult with technologists on campus about the best method to realize their projects' GIS technical goals, and adapt SUL's GIS services and infrastructure accordingly. Demonstrated Expertise Required In: • GIS applications, tools and resources through at least three years of hands- on management and development in a GIS environment. Familiarity includes direct experience with both raster and vector resources, geodatabase configuration and management, and common API's and tools (ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server, GeoServer, OpenLayers, OGC standards, Google Earth APIs etc.). • Software engineering in Web-, solr-lucene and database-backed application environments, and experience in contributing to and/or defining the technical architecture of complex systems. • Ruby, and Ruby on Rails, both for application development and in engineering an enhanced framework, including plug-ins, engines and gems, for developing and deploying applications. Experience with other MVC frameworks or dynamic languages will be considered. • Scripting technologies such as Perl, PHP, Python, etc., or a demonstrated ability to learn them quickly. In-depth knowledge of HTML and related website development technologies and software (especially CSS and AJAX). Familiarity with Java and object-oriented programming and concepts is desired. • Relational database design and management. Experience both in the administration of and implementing database applications for Oracle, Postgres, PostGIS, ArcSDE and/or MySQL. • Networking and systems integration in a heterogeneous hardware and software (Linux, Windows) environment. Experience with imaging virtualized environments (e.g., VMWare) is preferred. • XML and related tools and technologies (e.g., XML schema, schema management and databases, XSLT, X-forms) • Writing solid, simple, elegant code both independently and in a team- programming environment and within schedule limitations. • Working collaboratively on a proje
Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool for Named-Entity Recognition
On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Seth van Hooland wrote: > You want to automate the discovery of people, place names and events within a > large corpus of unstructured documents or metadata (e.g. description field)? > Then you might want to use the Named-Entity Recognition (NER) extension for > OpenRefine that has been developed by Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University > / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). Yes, named-entity recognition (NER) is fun. About a year ago I used a different application to do NER against about 100 digitized files. From my blog posting [0]: name-entity extraction – There was a desire to list the underlying names, places, and organizations from each text. These things can put a text into a context for the reader. Are there a lot of Irish names? Is there a preponderance of place names from the United States? To accomplish this task and assist in answering these sorts of questions, a Perl script was written around the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer. [1] This script (txt2ner.pl [2]) extracts the entities, looks them up in DBedia, and saves metadata (abstracts, URLs to images, as well as latitudes & longitudes) describing the entities to a locally defined XML file for later processing. (See an example. [3]) A CGI script (ner.cgi [4]) was then written to provide a reader-interface to these files. Once I "NER'ed" the files and saved the corresponding linked data, I was able to create a tablet-based interface providing the means for the reader to see how the words are used in context, but also read a blurb from wikipedia as well as map places via Google Maps. For example, some extracts from a book called An adventure With The Apaches [5] but the data is not as clean as I would hope. The whole thing was a part of a project we called the Catholic Youth Literature Project. [6] The ELIS software looks pretty interesting. [7] Fun with distant reading and NER. [0] blog postding - http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2012/03/cyl/ [1] Stanford NER - http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml [2] txt2ner.pl - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/bin/txt2ner.pl [3] intermediate XML file - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/corpus/advicetoirishgir00cusa.ner [4] CGI script - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/bin/ner-cgi.pl [5] Adventure - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/catalog/details/adventurewithapa00ferriala.html [6] Catholic Youth Literature - http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/cyl/catalog/ [7] ELIS - http://freeyourmetadata.org/named-entity-extraction/ -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame 574/631-8604
Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
Another option would be hosting in a larger, free consortium, such as the Digital Library of the Caribbean (for which I am the developer) which already supports a lot of content on Haiti. We have an agreement with the Law Library Microfilm Consortium to host much of the Haitian legal history through this portal as well. http://www.dloc.com Mark / UF 352-682-9692 mars...@uflib.ufl.edu From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Lisa Schiff [lisa.sch...@ucop.edu] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 3:22 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France If they want to get something up quickly, XTF might be a good starting point, especially since the 3.0 release comes with globalization support for having multiple languages in the UI, so that users can choose with language to see in the UI. http://xtf.cdlib.org/2011/04/xtf-3-0-released/ Lisa --- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library University of California Office of the President 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f) http://orcid.org/-0002-3572-2981 Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Raitz Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:13 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France Hi, I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had an interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading. I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and that she is able to learn what's necessary. I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this message. Cheers, Jason Raitz NCSU Libraries
[CODE4LIB] Final call for papers: First Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013)
Final call for papers: First Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) Call for papers: First Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2013/ The workshop is co-located with WWW2013 conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 13th of May 2013. Deadlines: - Workshop paper deadline: *March 1st 2013*, 23:59PM Hawaii Time (deadline extended) - Workshop paper notifications: March 13th 2013, 23:59PM Hawaii Time - Workshop paper final copy (ACM HARD DEADLINE): April 3rd 2013, 23:59PM Hawaii Time Objective/goals of the workshop: If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured media annotation is needed, which we call Linked Media. This 1st world wide web workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering media owner stakeholders and semantic media researchers to exchange current research and development work on online media description creation, publication, and processing. Specifically, we aim to promote a platform where automatic multimedia analysis results can be integrated into online media descriptions, making media more easily shared, queried and re-used. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. We foresee an opportunity to build a core consensus on Linked Media technology and launch Linked Media for the Web, at the WWW2013 conference. We see WWW as an outstanding opportunity to kick-start collaboration on this emerging field of research. Statement of significance: To push further the evolution of the Rich Media Web, it is essential to establish consensus on online media annotation standards and demonstrate approaches to leverage them in Web applications. LiME-2013 focuses on identifying the key building blocks required to support the development of new Web tools and interfaces to support the growth and re-use of Linked Media. It will be built on current work in this area and foster collaboration between key stakeholders by supporting discussion also prior and post workshop. Workshop topics and themes: Todays Web is a rich media Web non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources. As a result, access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation. Yet, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. The W3C Ontology for Media Resources provides mappings between 18 different multimedia metadata schema or standards and took a first step towards a common schema model, which now requires championing in the research and industry communities. The least common denominator approach followed by the W3C group has lead to a small and useful vocabulary that fails to support more advanced use cases that require to describe the multimedia content at a fragment level and go beyond simple tagging. Furthermore, automatic multimedia analysis results are not considered by this vocabulary. If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured media annotation is needed, which we call Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more available online. Mobile and tablet devices, as well as connected TV introduce novel application domains that benefit from broad understanding and acceptance of Linked Media standards. LiME-2013 aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering media owning stakeholders and semantic media researchers to exchange current research and development work on online media description creation, publication, and processing. Important aspects to discuss revolve around (1) emerging approaches to online media descriptions (2) extracting such descriptions and linking them to external resources (3) aim to showcase practical use cases in this domain, also covering interaction aspects for single and group users. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Approaches to online media descriptions 1.1. Aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its publication, and processing 1.2. Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web 1.3. Addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media; 2. Extracting and linking 2.1. Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources; 2.2. New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams); 2.3. Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Da
Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
If they want to get something up quickly, XTF might be a good starting point, especially since the 3.0 release comes with globalization support for having multiple languages in the UI, so that users can choose with language to see in the UI. http://xtf.cdlib.org/2011/04/xtf-3-0-released/ Lisa --- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library University of California Office of the President 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f) http://orcid.org/-0002-3572-2981 Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Raitz Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 11:13 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France Hi, I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had an interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading. I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and that she is able to learn what's necessary. I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this message. Cheers, Jason Raitz NCSU Libraries
[CODE4LIB] Job: Open Source System Administrator/Programmer at Amigos Library Services
Open Source System Administrator/Programmer Basic Function: Responsible for administering, maintaining, supporting, and assisting in the development of web-based applications (currently the Koha integrated library system) hosted through the Open Source Services unit; resolve technical server, software, and infrastructure issues; and communicate complex issues effectively to internal staff, member staff, and external vendors. Requirements: Bachelor's degree in computer information science, or related field is required. Master's degree in library science or information science highly desired. Linux certification (Linux+, LPIC, or RHCE) is a plus. Experience: Minimum of three years direct experience in Linux system administration (Debian or Ubuntu highly preferred), including network administration, security, and performance/system monitoring (experience with Linux clusters and high-availability preferred). Experience with an integrated library system (especially Koha) and a minimum of one year experience developing scripts/applications using perl, as well as shell scripting, are highly desired. Email resu...@amigos.org to apply for this job. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/6455/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets
Andrew, Since it's all JavaScript, all the customizations are open for inspection by viewing source or using a debugger. While I didn't change any BookReader core code in hopes of making upgrades less painful, our customizations are a mess, very institution-specific, and I don't plan to put any work into packaging them up in a way that can be shared easily. This was implemented about three years ago and I'm looking to start fresh. I think it depends on what you mean when you say "get Djatoka working with the BookReader". If you simply want to deliver images to the BookReader via Djatoka, that's relatively easy. Start with the example demo [1], and edit the "getPageURI" function in the 'BookReaderJSSimple.js' file by basically changing the "url" var to Djatoka's OpenURL format. You will also need to tell it how many pages are in the book (which you can also set in that page), but that should be it. For starters, you should simply size your dynamic JPGs to the sizes the BookReader expects from the IA architecture. If you want to implement deep-zoom without hacking the BookReader's core code, that's going to require quite a bit of work. Unless I really had to, I wouldn't go down that route at this point for various reasons. I can elaborate, but I wouldn't want to bore anyone. Since development on the BookReader has largely stopped, and it's perfectly fine at what it does, I've been more interested in developing a new object "viewer" that would support a number of different object types -- something easy to drop into any site without needing to know a lot of JS. I have some strong opinions on what that should look like, but it's still early and much discussion around specifications should happen, probably on a different list. [1] https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/blob/master/BookReaderDemo/BookReaderJSSimple.js -Shaun On 2/25/13 1:14 PM, Andrew Hankinson wrote: I would be interested in seeing your customizations. I've tried getting BookReader installed a couple times, and each time I got fed up with the install instructions, since it seemed specially tailored to the IA infrastructure. They mention that "others" have managed to get Djatoka working with BookReader, but I've scoured the Google and couldn't seem to find anyone who would share their code to get this working. On 2013-02-25, at 9:01 AM, Shaun Ellis wrote: Kyle, We have lots of old books too, and use the Open Library BookReader [1] for viewing. It's been designed with the iPad and other tablets in mind. I have customized it to work with Djatoka, allowing us "deep zoom" and other niceties of using JPEG2000 . However, out of the box, you can follow the Internet Archive's recipe [3] of zipping up a variety of derivative sizes, which works nicely as well. It's pretty easy to set up. I should mention that I met a number of folks at the conference who are using the BookReader and interested in extending/adapting it in a sustainable and cooperative way, with recent projects like the IIIF Image API and OpenAnnotation integration in mind. Let us know if anyone else is interested in being part of that discussion and development. We haven't put together a separate mailing list or anything yet, but probably will get one together soon. [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader [2] http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/ms35t871w [3] http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/ -Shaun On 2/22/13 7:50 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size of a large briefcase. We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend? Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks, kyle
Re: [CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
Okay, I just got some more information that makes the problem much clearer and adds a time sensitivity. I was going to cut and paste, but it looks like there is a legal factor to this that may make sending identifiable information in the clear a bad idea. It looks like this is actually an organization that it hoping to document the human rights abuses conducted under the former Duvalier dynasty in Haiti with the aim (I believe) of getting him convicted. It's goal is to set up the library interface and have Renee go to to Haiti to train people to use and manage the library. Renee does have background setting up Wordpress sites and writing basic HTML. They've purchased hosting on Godaddy and hope to use a MySQL db. the documents are in 4 languages and all types of media formats: pdf, audio, images and video. current skeleton wordpress site: http://haiti-lutte-contre-limpunite.org They hope to create the whole shebang in the next month! Definitely doesn't sound like an academic library timeframe. ;-) Jason On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jason Raitz wrote: > Hi, > I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint > Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, > bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured > hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more > documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had an > interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I > briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading. > I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school > like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. > > If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with > such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. > > She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't > consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), > she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and > that she is able to learn what's necessary. > > I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this > message. > > Cheers, > Jason Raitz > NCSU Libraries >
[CODE4LIB] human rights violations elibrary for Haiti/France
Hi, I've just been contacted out of the blue by someone working with a joint Haitian/French human rights organization that needs to create a searchable, bilingual elibrary on human rights violations in Haiti. They've secured hosting in America for various reasons and they have a few thousand or more documents to store, index and make available. The lady I talked to had an interest in using facets and storing the documents in a MySQL db. I briefly suggested that Solr and Blacklight might be where they're heading. I also suggested that she might be able to get more help from an I-school like my alma mater, UNC-SILS. If anyone would like to assist her or has some ideas or experience with such things, her email is reneeasteria [at] gmail [dot] com. She didn't tell me much more beyond this. I believe that she doesn't consider herself a programmer (I bet we would consider her a coder :-) ), she's been working with statistical software for a number of years, and that she is able to learn what's necessary. I'm not sure of any protocols, but I went ahead and CC'd Renee on this message. Cheers, Jason Raitz NCSU Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets
I would be interested in seeing your customizations. I've tried getting BookReader installed a couple times, and each time I got fed up with the install instructions, since it seemed specially tailored to the IA infrastructure. They mention that "others" have managed to get Djatoka working with BookReader, but I've scoured the Google and couldn't seem to find anyone who would share their code to get this working. On 2013-02-25, at 9:01 AM, Shaun Ellis wrote: > Kyle, > We have lots of old books too, and use the Open Library BookReader [1] for > viewing. It's been designed with the iPad and other tablets in mind. I have > customized it to work with Djatoka, allowing us "deep zoom" and other > niceties of using JPEG2000 . However, out of the box, you can follow the > Internet Archive's recipe [3] of zipping up a variety of derivative sizes, > which works nicely as well. It's pretty easy to set up. > > I should mention that I met a number of folks at the conference who are using > the BookReader and interested in extending/adapting it in a sustainable and > cooperative way, with recent projects like the IIIF Image API and > OpenAnnotation integration in mind. Let us know if anyone else is interested > in being part of that discussion and development. We haven't put together a > separate mailing list or anything yet, but probably will get one together > soon. > > [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader > [2] http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/ms35t871w > [3] > http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/ > > -Shaun > > On 2/22/13 7:50 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: >> We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 >> years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size >> of a large briefcase. >> >> We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand >> to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with >> stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend? >> >> Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and >> there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks, >> >> kyle
[CODE4LIB] Job: Information Systems Librarian at Queen's University
**Decsription** Queen's University Library invites applications for the position of Information Systems Librarian. This is a two year, limited term appointment. Reporting to the Head of Discovery Systems, the Information Systems Librarian participates in the support and development of the Library's core information management systems and services. The Information Systems Librarian contributes to the continuous improvement of these systems and services by assessing emerging and evolving technologies for use in the Library, and working collaboratively with colleagues inside and outside of the Library to aid in their implementation and integration with existing technologies, sharing knowledge as appropriate. Responsibilities will evolve as the Library continues to develop and restructure in support of the University's strategic priorities. See the [complete position guide](http://library.queensu.ca/library/jobs/librarian) **Qualifications** * An ALA accredited MLIS or equivalent degree, completed or nearing completion. * Strong communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills and a strong service orientation. * Creativity, flexibility, initiative and the ability to work both independently and as a member of a team. * Ability to shift responsibilities and priorities in a demanding and rapidly changing environment, and a willingness to take advantage of training and development opportunities. * Knowledge of current and emerging technology trends, and awareness of opportunities and challenges for library services and collections. * A keen interest in information technology, digital initiatives, social media and emerging web and mobile technologies. * A demonstrated ability to plan, develop, implement and manage system installations and projects. * Familiarity with library metadata standards, search and retrieval and authentication protocols. (required: MARC 21, OpenURL; preferred: Dublin Core, METS, MODS, Z39.50, SIP 2, EDI, OAI, Shibboleth). * Proven technical abilities and demonstrated knowledge of current applications and utilities for managing and transferring data between different systems. * Knowledge of database technologies and standards, and practical experience with database products such as MySQL, Oracle and MS Access. * Experience developing and administering web-based solutions using a variety of technologies (e.g. Perl, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, XML/XSL). * Working experience with both server and PC-based operating systems and software (Unix and Windows). **Environment** Queen's is one of Canada's leading universities, with an international reputation for scholarship, research, social purpose and spirit. Established in 1841, Queen's has reflected and helped shape Canadian values and policies, educating some of the country's most notable figures. The university has a student body of 23,000, representing 83 different countries, and 2500 faculty drawn from some of the best institutions in the world. Queen's is located in the heart of historic Kingston, midpoint between Montreal and Toronto, and the nation's capital. Queen's University Library consistently receives top marks as a medium-sized university library. It comprises six libraries and several cross-library divisions supporting the university's academic mission, and is known for its dedicated staff, strong research collections and superb facilities. A staff of approximately 120 provides information leadership and is deeply embedded in Queen's faculties and schools of Engineering & Applied Science, Arts & Science, Business, Education, Health Sciences, Law, Policy Studies, Religion and Urban & Regional Planning. The Library's research collections, developed since the university's founding, are a central university priority and include millions of print and digital items supported by a strong technology infrastructure and a focus on scholarly communications. Library facilities are heavily used campus hubs with a mix of inviting, accessible learning spaces, computers and collections. Queen's University Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. **Salary and Benefits** Librarians are members of the Queen's University Faculty Association and terms and conditions of work are governed by the collective agreement between the Association and the University, which is posted at [http://www.qufa.ca](http://www.qufa.ca) Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. This is a two year limited term position as outlined in Article 25.1.5. The University invites applications from all qualified individuals. Queen's University is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. All qualified candidates are enco
[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian/Archivist (Boise State University Libraries, Idaho) at Boise State University
Boise State University Albertsons Library, a fast-paced library focused on mobile/digital advancements, invites applicants for the faculty position of Librarian/Archivist, Assistant Professor in Special Collections and Archives. The Librarian/Archivist will serve as the library's liaison to at least one academic department with responsibility for reference and instruction. The position reports to the Head of Special Collections and Archives and works both individually and collaboratively with a team that includes one other Librarian/Archivist, a Archives Assistant, and student assistants. Responsibilities include: Does reference work in Special Collections including desk, phone, and email requests Arrangement and description of archives and manuscript collections Assists with development, planning, promotion, delivery, and evaluation of digital collections, including establishing policies and workflows Participates in outreach, exhibits, and other programs Directs the work of student assistants, interns, and special hires in processing projects Participates in library planning and committee activities that reinforce the Library's mission and goals Participates in general library instruction and reference Maintains awareness of current trends and advances in archives and librarianship Minimum qualifications: Master's degree from an ALA-accredited Library and Information Science program Minimum 3 year professional experience with arrangement and description of archives and manuscript collections Ability to work effectively as part of a team as well as individually Knowledge of the principles and practices of curation and preservation of electronic records Strong knowledge of digitization and metadata standards, DACS, and EAD Strong analytical, writing, interpersonal, and organizational skills Ability to lift 30 lbs. Preferred qualifications: Experience working with Archivists' Toolkit Experience using digital curation and preservation tools Certification through the Academy of Certified Archivists Salary and benefits: Minimum salary of $44,000, comprehensive benefits package. This is a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track position with faculty status and academic rank. Appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor. Library faculty must meet Library and University requirements to achieve promotion and tenure. Application Information: Send electronic cover letter of application, resume, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three professional references to jjohn...@boisestate.edu (preferred method) or mail to: Jaque Johnson Search #AA-0044-23 Boise State University 1910 University Dr. Boise, ID 83725-1430 Review of applications will begin on April 8, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/6444/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Multimedia Archives Internship at Human Rights Watch
Since its founding in 1978, Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has produced and
acquired hundreds of thousands of hours of multimedia content, including
interviews, witness testimonials, and field footage shot by researchers,
professional photographers and videographers all over the world. Our archive
contains digital photographs, video, audio, microfilm, maps and graphics.
HRW's media collection is active and growing, and is accessed on a daily basis
by the multimedia production team and researchers to promote human rights
worldwide.
The Multimedia department is seeking undergraduate and graduate students in
library science, information science, audiovisual archiving and related fields
to be Multimedia Archives interns for the summer 2013 semester. This program
is designed for students interested in human rights work who hope to acquire
training and hands-on experience in the field of audiovisual archiving,
preservation, and digital asset management. Interns will inventory media
assets and choose a collection of audiovisual media associated with one of
Human Rights Watch's divisions or themes to research and archive. Interns will
research, process, digitize and catalog this collection, taking ownership over
the archiving process from beginning to end. Under the direct supervision of
the Multimedia Manager, interns will build skills including video
digitization, collection assessment, sorting, arrangement, rehousing and
storage of assets, as well as cataloging of digital and physical collection
items.
Ideally, the candidate will be available for a minimum of 15 - 20 hours per
week, three days per week for a minimum of three months - timing can be
flexible.
Internships are generally unpaid, although work-study funds are available.
Students are often able to arrange academic credit, as HRW internships often
offer direct exposure to the workings of an international human rights
organization, close supervision by the HRW staff, interaction with other
international organizations and foreign and domestic government officials, and
opportunities to attend lectures, trainings, and special events relating to
human rights. Students should check with their individual academic
institutions for requirements.
Qualifications: The intern must be an enrolled student during the internship
term. Applicants should be well-organized, self-motivated and reliable. Ideal
candidates have an interest in human rights work, current events, archives,
and preservation. Strong written and verbal communication skills are required,
and some knowledge or experience using video production tools and/or working
in a library or archive environment is a plus.
Applicants who are offered an internship, but who are not US permanent
residents, US citizens, or in possession of a valid student visa, must apply
for a J-1 visa through a sponsoring organization. This process can take
several weeks and applicants will have to incur their own costs.
How to Apply: Please apply immediately by sending a letter of interest,
resume, two names or letters of reference, and a brief, unedited writing
sample (no calls or email inquiries, please) to
commsinternsh...@hrw.org. Please use "Archives Intern" as
the subject of your email. Only complete applications will
be reviewed. Due to the large number of applications, only short-listed
candidates will be contacted further.
Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate
in its hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible
workforce, actively seeks a diverse applicant pool.
Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy
organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely
reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success
in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential
governments and international institutions.
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[CODE4LIB] NASIG Annual Conference Call for Great Ideas Showcase Proposals
The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites Great Ideas Showcase proposals for the 28th North American Serials Interest Group conference in Buffalo, NY, June 6-9, 2013. The theme of the conference is "Art of Information, Architecture of Knowledge." The first-ever Great Ideas Showcase (formerly Poster Sessions) will be held on Friday, June 7, 2013, 2:25-3:25 p.m. Presenters must be available to discuss their showcases during that time. The Great Ideas Showcase will provide an opportunity to share innovative ideas, new workflows, and new applications of technology in an interactive and informal setting. Great Ideas can be demonstrated in a variety of ways posters, laptops, tablets, e-readers, etc. Participants will be given a table to showcase their idea as attendees mingle amongst the tables. If requested a table top poster display board will be provided. Proposals may present a report of a research study, an analysis of a practical problem-solving effort, or a description of an innovative program that may be of interest to the serials community. Proposals should name any particular products or services that are integral to the content of the showcase. However, as a matter of NASIG policy, showcases should not be used as a venue to promote or attack any product, service, or institution. To propose a Great Idea, please use the online form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013NASIGShowcase Proposals must be received by 5pm PDT on Friday, March 29, 2013. Members of the Program Planning Committee will evaluate abstracts, and presenters will be notified at the beginning of April 2013. Inquiries may be sent to the NASIG PPC Chair and Vice-Chair, Karen Davidson and Kelli Getz at prog-p...@nasig.org. We look forward to seeing you in Buffalo!
[CODE4LIB] Looking for an ontology of library services
Hi, My question is not directly connected to coding but I suppose there are some library geeks, interested in semantic web at this list. During the last years I have crafted (or I am still crafting) several ontologies to describe library related information in RDF. I try hard not to reinvent wheels but to connect to existing ontologies as much as possible. I also try to keep it simple (such as Dublin Core) by creating multiple small ontologies instead of one large library-ontology. For instance I created the general Simple Service Status Ontology (SSSO) to express the state of a service, such as lending a book (e.g. reserved, provided for pickup, on loan...), but also suitable for other services: http://purl.org/ontology/ssso Revisiting the ontology for Document Availability Information Ontology (DAIA) I thought about moving the list of library services to a small ontology of its own. Do you know of any more-or-less format lists, classifications etc. of library services? Is anyone else interested in an ontology of library services? I also asked this at StackExchange, you can answer there or here: http://libraries.stackexchange.com/questions/1403/what-basic-services-are-typically-provided-by-a-library Cheers, Jakob -- Jakob Voß , skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de
Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets
Kyle, We have lots of old books too, and use the Open Library BookReader [1] for viewing. It's been designed with the iPad and other tablets in mind. I have customized it to work with Djatoka, allowing us "deep zoom" and other niceties of using JPEG2000 . However, out of the box, you can follow the Internet Archive's recipe [3] of zipping up a variety of derivative sizes, which works nicely as well. It's pretty easy to set up. I should mention that I met a number of folks at the conference who are using the BookReader and interested in extending/adapting it in a sustainable and cooperative way, with recent projects like the IIIF Image API and OpenAnnotation integration in mind. Let us know if anyone else is interested in being part of that discussion and development. We haven't put together a separate mailing list or anything yet, but probably will get one together soon. [1] http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader [2] http://pudl.princeton.edu/objects/ms35t871w [3] http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/ -Shaun On 2/22/13 7:50 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size of a large briefcase. We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend? Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks, kyle
[CODE4LIB] Tool for Named-Entity Recognition
Dear colleagues, You want to automate the discovery of people, place names and events within a large corpus of unstructured documents or metadata (e.g. description field)? Then you might want to use the Named-Entity Recognition (NER) extension for OpenRefine that has been developed by Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). On http://freeyourmetadata.org/named-entity-extraction/, you will find all the information necessary to start experimenting with NER on your own. The extension was developed specifically in the context of a research paper, entitled "Named-Entity Recognition: A Gateway Drug for Cultural Heritage Collections to the Linked Data Cloud?". A preprint of this paper can be found on http://freeyourmetadata.org/publications/named-entity-recognition.pdf. The paper also aims to foster a discussion within the Digital Library community regarding the quality of concepts described in knowledge bases (e.g. Freebase versus DBPedia) and the current struggle between schemes (e.g. schema.org versus Open Graph protocol). We will be presenting our work in North and Latin America in March (Boston), April (New York and Philadelphia), May (Quito) and June (New York and Montreal) so if you're located in one of those cities/areas and interested in collaborating or hosting a workshop on this topic, don't hesitate to get in touch. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102 Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102
